ICAS EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHARGE

**The ICAS Executive Board is in the process of updating the Bylaws and developing the 1st Edition of the ICAS Manual.

1. 1. The Board of Directors and Staff of ICAS are charged to serve ICAS’s mission and Ten CAS Principles in respect of the ICAS Bylaws and ICAS Manual (coming soon).
   2. Members of ICAS include all leadership positions must pay an annual membership fee.
   3. The Executive Board of Directors meet once a month via Skype on the 2nd Saturday at 10:00pm Eastern USA Time.
   4. The Executive Board of Directors at the monthly meetings are dedicated to reviewing that all the programs, projects, regions, and publications are being managed by the coordinator/director/editor/chair accordingly and the development or elimination of them via a vote either at the Monthly Meeting or via listserve/mass message.
   5. The Board of Executive Directors –both individually and collectively–are the only ones that can officially represent the whole organization and can determine what individuals, coalitions, and groups we collaborate with or do not. All ICAS programs, projects, regions, and/or publications who have been appointed by the ICAS Executive Directors can speak on behalf of themselves.
   6. All ICAS board, committees, programs, projects, regions, and/or publications conduct decisions through a closed consensus-decision-making.
   7. All coordinators/directors/editors/chairs send monthly reports to the Executive Director of the appropriate department to then send to the Executive Director of Board Relations. The Executive Director of Board Relations synthesizes all the reports to publish on the ICAS website. This final document also functions as the agenda for ICAS Board Executives monthly meetings.
   8. ICAS strives to have a diverse board and leadership team that represent different genders, sexualities, financial status, ages, education, countries, ethnicity, races, and abilities.
   9. All coordinators/directors/editors/chairs must support veganism.
   10. All conflicts within ICAS or complaints must be dealt with privately through mediation or conflict transformation within the organization via Skype communication and not publicly. We ask that all private conversations are dealt with in privacy from issues such as voting on awards to personal disputes.
   11. If voting or decisions are to be made about an individual such as awards or reviewing a program, out of conflict of interest and ethical consideration, individual would be asked not to be a part of the vote or decision. Moreover, if there is a personal relationship between parties ICAS asks to be informed of such relationships so favoritism or control behaviors can be managed in regards to managerial oversight, decision-making, and voting.
   12. ICAS takes a strict position not to work with any law enforcement on any open case that could aid in the arrest of an individual or promote the arrest of any individual such as animal abuse or animal liberation, as we advocate prison abolition and transformative justice.

ICAS EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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**The Institute for Critical Animal Studies Board of Directors runs as a workers-collective and not as an academic or professional association or corporation.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Total Liberation: Humans, Animals & Environment
2. Comprehensive Humane Education
3. Critical Analysis and Transformation of Structural Oppression
4. Radical Pedagogy & Systems-Thinking Leadership

Kelly Nix is an educator and advocate whose scholarship and activism span human rights, animal welfare, and environmental justice. With over a decade of experience in education and school leadership, she serves as the Executive Director of Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. This organization centers education as the primary catalyst for creating a more compassionate and just world.

As a board member of the Brave New Life Project, Kelly highlights the hidden human impacts of animal agriculture, advocating for a holistic approach to liberation that addresses intertwined systems of oppression. Her dissertation introduces “The Web of Liberation,” a transdisciplinary framework mapping interconnected oppressions such as racism, speciesism, ableism, patriarchy, and ecological destruction. This model emphasizes coalition-building across movements and advocates holistic justice approaches to encourage integrated solutions in education, activism, and policy.

Her academic background includes a B.A. in Sociology, a Master’s degree in Special Education and Educational Leadership, and she is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Educational & Professional Practice with a focus on Comprehensive Humane Education. She will begin the Animal Law MSL Program through Lewis & Clark Law School in Fall 2025.

Beyond her advocacy, Kelly enjoys the surprisingly calming and meditative experience of vacuuming, finding peace in the satisfying sounds of cleaning.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Intersectional Inclusive Social Justice Education and Environmental Education/Ecopedagogy
2. Critical Criminology
3. Dis-Ability/Eco-ability Studies/Pedagogy
4. Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is co-founder of the fields of critical animal studies and radical animal studies and co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Dr. Nocella II is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute of Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Transformative Justice Journal, and co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory with Lexington Books and Hip Hop Studies and Activism with Peter Lang Publishing. He has published over fifty book chapters or articles and forty books. Dr. Nocella II is the National Coordinator of Save the Kids, Director of the Academy for Peace Education, and acquisitions editor of Arissa Media Group. His work has been translated in Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Korean, and Japanese. He has been interviewed by New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Durango Herald, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and Los Angeles Times. He regularly provides workshops and keynote speeches on social justice education, Hip Hop studies, critical animal studies, total liberation, anarchist studies, and critical criminology. His website is www.anthonynocella.org

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Total Human, Animal & Earth Liberation
2. Palestine/anti-war/anti-imperialism
3. Social Ecology/Communalism/Anarchism
4. Radical/Liberation psychology, pedagogy & psychosocial studies

Laura Schleifer is a lifelong ‘artivist’, or artist-activist. An NYU Tisch graduate (BFA, Drama), she’s toured the Middle East, performing for Palestinian and Iraqi refugee children with the Boomchucka theater/circus troupe, taught in China, Nicaragua, and at Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center, performed off-Broadway, and arts-mentored NYC homeless/targeted youth. Her original screenplay, The Feral Child, was a Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab finalist. Her essays appear in New Politics Magazine, The Leftist Review, Forca Vegan, The New Engagement, and and an upcoming series for Al Jazeera on contemporary Jewish-American identity, as well as multiple anthologies, including Kropotkin Now! Life, Freedom and Ethics, published by Black Rose Books, Resisting Neoliberal Schooling; Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education and Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination; Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation both published by Peter Lang Publishing, and Fever Spores; William S. Burroughs and Queer Letters, published by Rebel Satori Press. Laura is also Program Chair at Promoting Enduring Peace (https://pepeace.org/), a historic U.S. peace organization, and co-founder of Plant the Land (www.planttheland.org) , a Palestinian-led vegan food justice/community projects mutual aid team in Gaza.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Nonhuman ethics
2. Eco-ability
3. Critical Race, disability, and gender studies
4. Cultural studies

Amber E. George, Ph.D., is an educator, social justice advocate, and artist currently teaching courses in ethical and social philosophy at SUNY Cortland, Le Moyne College and Misericordia University. She received her Doctorate in Philosophy from Binghamton University in 2007. Her dissertation, “Interpreting Dislocation: Gathering a Sense of Belonging,” employs various visual and poetic metaphors to analyze oppression based on race, gender, and disability. Themes of her work center on challenging the systemic nature of oppression as it materializes in various cultural situations. Her life and work celebrates a kind of belonging for humans, nonhuman beings, and nature with the hopes of achieving social justice.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. critical pedagogy/ecoability
2. posthumanism/critical disability studies
3. radical self-care/collective healing
4. rights, respect, and equity for children

Jennifer Salerno is an early childhood educator and child advocate based in Baltimore, Maryland. Grounded in critical pedagogy, her work attempts to disrupt dominant ideologies and foster critical thinking, collective empowerment, and social transformation. Jennifer’s educational practice employs an emergent pedagogy that aims to reimagine ability, community, and interdependence with the natural world. As a doctoral candidate at Antioch University, Jennifer utilizes a transdisciplinary framework—drawing on ecoability, posthumanism, and transformative learning theory—to challenge normative notions of ability and independence. Her research strives to advance an ethic of interdependence that recognizes the entangled relationships between human and more-than-human beings in the pursuit of social, disability, and environmental justice.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Health
2. Athletics
3. Youth Justice
4. Environmentalism

Marianne Allred holds a doctorate from University of Utah and has worked in the medical industry for over twenty years. She regularly studies medicine, alternative medicine, and health related to pharmaceuticals. She also is involved in outdoor adventures, athletics, running, cycling, and promoting healthy living, mental health, youth development, and education.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Religion
2. Asian Studies
3. Identity Politics
4. Cultural Studies

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Literary animal representation
2. Postcolonial Ecocriticism
3. Utopian Studies
4. Studies on vulnerability and animal resistance

Ângela Lamas Rodrigues holds a PhD in English Literatures and is a full professor at the State University of Londrina (UEL, Brazil), where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on literary animal representation. She has advised Master’s and PhD dissertations and is currently a member of UEL’s Center of Letters and Social Sciences Research Committee. She is the founder of Brum’s Institute: Animal Sanctuary, the first non-governmental organization dedicated to animal liberation in the State of Paraná and the first run by a liberationist scholar in Brazil. The Sanctuary hosts bulls, dogs, fishes, native bees, and protects the local fauna through a reforestation project.  Ângela is Associate Editor for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and member of the Latin American Institute for Critical Animal Studies. She has peer reviewed multiple manuscripts for Brazilian and International Journals and is the author of a book of poetry, multiple articles, book chapters and a book on postcolonial writing.

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Total liberation politics/pedagogy
2. Social movements as educational forces
3. Decolonial and Intersectional Critical Theory
4. Media/Cultural Studies

AREAS OF INTEREST:

1. Veganism
2. Comprehensive Humane Education
3. Total Liberation
4. Ecolinguistics

Grounded in a commitment to total liberation, Jesika Keener, Ed.D. sees education as a catalyst for inspiring compassionate coexistence with all beings. Her work focuses on fostering spaces that reflect these values and empower others to pursue meaningful change. Jesika holds a Doctor of Education in Educational and Professional Practice from Antioch University and a Graduate Certificate in Comprehensive Humane Education from the Institute for Humane Education. She also earned a Master of Arts in Education from The University of Akron and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University. To learn more about her work, visit jesikakeener.academia.edu.

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SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD

Senior Advisors are former members of the Board of Directors of ICAS that have shaped ICAS and CAS on a global level over the years and are honored and respected by ICAS. They are praised here and called on for guidance on ICAS projects and programs. Senior Advisors are also able to return to the Board of Directors.

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Sarat Colling (Canada) (Memorialized 2025) 
Remembering Sarat Colling ICAS Webpage

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Anarchism
2. Animal Liberation
3. Animal Resistance
4. Transnational Feminism

Sarat Colling is a writer, activist, and critical animal studies scholar. She is the author of Animali in Rivolta, Chickpea Runs Away, Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, and contributions to several critical animal studies anthologies. Her focus on the topic of animal resistance began with an MA thesis in Critical Sociology titled “Animals Without Borders: Farmed Animal Resistance in New York.” Since becoming vegan in 2004, Sarat has volunteered with various animal advocacy and vegan organizations. She also works as the Program Director for the Natural History Centre on Hornby Island, BC.

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Priya Parmar (United States)
Areas of Interest
1. Critical Pedagogy
2. Hip Hop Studies
3. Dog Rescue
4. Urban Youth

Priya Parmar’s research interests are framed by a deep commitment to social change and social justice through constructivism, social activism and liberatory teaching practices. She is particularly interested in the development of language and literacy skills in urban youth who have been disenfranchised by either schooling or environment. Parmar has worked closely with several Brooklyn high schools through the College Now Program in a program she co-created (with Dr. Bryonn Bain) called “Lyrical Minded: Enhancing Literacy Through Popular Culture and Spoken Word Poetry.” Parmar has also devoted her time to teaching an English class in various Brooklyn high schools through the CUNY College Now Program. The class centered on critical literacies (including media literacy), spoken word poetry and Hip Hop culture.

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Carolyn Drew (Australia)
Program Director, ICAS Oceania
beautiful.wild@internode.on.net

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Radical Adult Education
2. The Kangaroo and Australian Myths
3. Social Justice and Animal Liberation in Australia
4. Animal Liberation and Eco-psychology

Carolyn Drew is an Australian academic and writer. She currently teaches out of University of Canberra and University of Canberra College. Her philosophy on education is inspired by Neil Postman and Paulo Freire. Carolyn’s main aim is to create a learning environment where the student is empowered through nurturing critical thinking skills. Concurrent with this area of interest is her passion for animal rights and activism. Carolyn is particularly interested in the human rupture from the natural world and its underpinning of the exploitation and abuse of animals, including that of humans, throughout history. In 2009 she co-authored ‘The Harvest’ published in the ‘Southerly’, Australia’s preeminent Australian English Association Journal. ‘The Harvest’ is a faction story based on the 2008 slaughter of 512 kangaroos trapped in a disused Naval Transmission Station in Canberra, Australia. Carolyn has a BA in Communication Honours (Canb) and a Masters in Education in Adult education (UTS).

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Marie-France Boissonneault, PhD (Canada)
Interdisciplinary Scholar | Educator | Author | Counsellor

Areas of Interest:

1. Critical Animal Studies & Anthrozoology

2. Ecopedagogy & Environmental Education

3. Animal Representations in Culture & Care

4. Ecological & Culturally Responsive Counselling

Marie-France Boissonneault, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, author, and advocate whose work bridges human-animal studies, communications, psychology, and ecological counselling. She holds a PhD in Communications, Media Arts, and IT; a BSc (Honours) in Marine Sciences from the University of Newcastle (Australia); and a BA in Psychology and Film Studies from the University of Victoria. She also holds diplomas in photography, multimedia design, and creative arts. Dr. Boissonneault has taught in departments ranging from Education (Simon Fraser University) to Animal Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation (Canisius College), and has served as Adjunct Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. Her teaching and research focus on the ethical, emotional, and pedagogical roles of nonhuman animals in education and wellness, advocating for compassionate, ecologically integrated approaches in theory and practice. She is the author of Nurse or Nemesis, which examines the plight of Australia’s endangered grey nurse shark, and Every Living Being, which explores how representations of animals influence human well-being and interspecies relationships. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and media outlets and is internationally recognised for its contributions to anthrozoology, ecopedagogy, and critical animal studies. Beyond academia, Marie-France works as a therapeutic counsellor, offering culturally responsive and ecologically grounded support. Her leadership and activism are rooted in a commitment to intersectionality, compassion, and social transformation; both inside and outside the classroom.

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Lucas Alan Dietsche (United States)
Areas of Interest
1. Prison Abolition
2. Poetry
3. Transformative Justice
4. Critical Criminology

Lucas Alan Dietsche is a graduate with a master’s in criminal justice from University of Wisconsin-Platteville.  He is the National Organizer of Letters to Prisoners-Save the Kids.   He is also a professor of prison education. He helps send radical propaganda, books, and birthday cards as organizer of Save the Kids Letters to Prisoners Project.  He is also currently an Editor of the Poetry Behind the Walls.  As the Current Poet Laureate of Taconite Harbor, he has written and published many collections of poetry and novels.  He has research on Poetry Criminology, and carceral feminism.  He has a patreon account called The Pilot of Oumuamua.__________

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Ronnie Lee (UK)
ronaldanthonylee@gmail.com 
Areas of interest
1. Animal liberation
2. Veganism
3. Deep ecology
4. Disability rights
Ronnie Lee has been a vegan and campaigner for animal liberation for almost 50 years. In the early 1970s he was one of the founders of the Animal Liberation Front and served three prison sentences (a total of about 9 years in prison) for animal liberation activism. Since his last release from prison, in 1992, he has been involved in various animal protection campaigns and political activities. His main focus is now on vegan outreach and on the creation of a network of local activist groups to spread the vegan message.

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Dr. Richard J. White (UK)
Richard.White@shu.ac.uk

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Activism, praxis and questions of (non)-violence
2. Critical animal geographies: social and spatial justice
3. Radical anarchist and vegan geographies
4. The Politics of Total Liberation

Richard J. White is a Reader in Human at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Greatly influenced by anarchist praxis, his work explores a range of ethical, economic and activist landscapes rooted in questions of social and spatial justice. He co-edited Anarchism and Animal Liberation (2015); The Radicalization of Pedagogy (2016); Theories of Resistance (2016) and The Practice of Freedom (2016). He has published widely within journals and books including: A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front (2019); Education for Total Liberation (2019); Animal Oppression and Capitalism (2017, Praeger); Critical Animal Geographies (2014) and Defining Critical Animal Studies (2014). Richard is a former Editor of The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (2009-2012).

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Matthew Calarco (United States)
mcalarco@fullerton.edu
Areas of Interest
1. Ethology
2. Animal philosophy
3. Environmental Philosophy
4. Decolonial Philosophy

Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches a wide variety of courses in applied ethics and the history of philosophy. His research focuses on animal philosophy, Continental philosophy, environmental philosophy, social justice movements, and decolonial approaches to land and the more-than-human world.

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Ian Purdy (Canada)
ian_purdy@yahoo.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Activism
2. Animal Liberation History
3. Revolutionary Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
4. Social movement theory

Ian Purdy is a grassroots activist based in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Social Justice and Equity Studies (with a CAS focus) from Brock University.  Additionally, Ian holds a BA in English (University of Toronto) and a BSc in Nursing (Ryerson University.) His MA dissertation explored recruitment in the Canadian animal rights movement during the 1970s and 1980s. Ian presented ‘Canada’s Foie Gras Industry’ and ‘The Portrayal of the Animal Liberation Front in Canadian Newspapers in the Early 1990s’ at the 2011 and 2012 ICAS conferences, respectively. By day Ian works as a project manager at an epidemiological health research institute; by night he co-organizes an open lecture series at the University of Toronto called the Animal Rights Academy (http://animalrightsacademy.org/). Day and night he dotes on his family of rescued companion animals.

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Dr. Joe Leeson-Schatz (United States)
debate@binghamton.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Disability and Eco-ability Studies
2. Cultural & Media Studies
3. Transhumanist Studies
4. Feminist Theory

Joe Leeson-Schatz is a Professor of English and Feminist Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University where he also serves as the Director of the Speech and Debate Team, which was ranked 1st in the nation in 2008. He has published essays on technology and apocalypse, environmental securitization, disability studies, and the influence of science-fiction on reality.

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Dr. Johnny Lupinacci (United States)
jlupinacci@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

 1. Environmental Education/EcoJustice/Ecopedagogy
2. Urban Education/Place-based Education
3. Critical Disability/Eco-ability Studies
4.  Anarchist Pedagogies/Cultural Studies

Dr. Lupinacci’s research focuses on how people, specifically educators, learn to both identify and examine destructive habits of modern human culture and how those habits are taught and learning in schools. His work proposes that, through educational activist networks, teachers can be leaders in confronting dominant assumptions about the habits of mind underwriting social injustices and environmental degradation.

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 John C. Alessio (United States)

Areas of Interest

1. Sociology
2. Social Problems
3. Activism
4. Education

Dr. John C. Alessio is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, and a former University Dean.  During his career he initiated, developed, and co-developed a number of university programs to enhance diversity and social justice.  In addition to holding many leadership positions as a professor, Dr. Alessio served as Academic Dean at Marywood University, and subsequently as Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato.  He oversaw hundreds of faculty members and many academic departments and programs.  As Dean, his many contributions included stopping the use of animals in labs and in other university activities. He has been a vegan for 25 years.  In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Dr. Alessio has published three books: two scholarly works through Routledge (2011, 2017), and an historical fiction through Barnes & Noble Press (2020).  His current interests include political activism, writing political editorials, and writing socially meaningful fiction.

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Jason Bayless (United States)
jason@zombie-popcorn.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Animal liberation
2. Social movement strategy
3. Community development
4. Radical education

Jason Bayless is a diverse activist with a wide range of experience. He has traveled the country documenting and reporting animal abuse and neglect within the entertainment industry, including Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and the NYC horse drawn carriage industry. He is currently on the Board of Directors with Center for Farmworker Families, non-profit organization dedicated to education, advocacy, and support for farmworker families. Jason is also on the National Board of Directors of Move to Amend, a coalition of organizations and individuals, who are working together to end corporate personhood and works to remove money as protected free speech under the First Amendment. He recently joined the board for the Chiapas Support Committee, a grassroots collective that serves as a center for education and information about Chiapas, the Zapatista communities and Mexico. He also has created A Radical Guide (radical-guide.com). A Radical Guide is a user generated content site that features radical history, locations, and people who working to change how we live and work together. Jason is the U.S. Community Development Specialist with Pachamama Alliance is to support volunteers and co-develop resources and trainings that strike at the root of systems and structures that keep us separated from each other and earth.

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Patty Mark (Australia)
Areas of Interest
1. Open rescue
2. Animal Liberation Education
3. Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
4. Veganism

Patty Mark has been an animal activist since 1978 when she founded Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV) in Melbourne. A vegetarian since 1974 and vegan for over 30 years, Patty also co-founded Veganeasy.org in 2009, incorporating the 30 Day Vegan Challenge, one of the first such campaigns in the world. In the early 80’s Patty founded and edited for almost 20 years what became Animal Liberation’s national magazine in Australia. Patty is best known for her pioneering work in Openrescue starting back in 1993. This included peacefully and non-violently entering facilities where neglected animals were known to be suffering and in pain and taking them to medical treatment. Activists also documented the brutal and unjust treatment of individuals confined in animal agriculture, bringing to light some of the first images of their torment to the public. Patty had two short imprisonments connected to her rescue of battery caged hens. Starting her urban animal sanctuary of rescued farmed animals in 1986, five years ago (2015) she expanded ALV’s Liberation Sanctuary and moved to 45 rural acres where many more animals can live happily, while using their stories to influence humans on their intrinsic autonomy.

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Jim Mason (United States)
Areas of Interest
1. Farm Animals
2. Enviromentalism
3. Ethics
4. Consumerism
Jim Mason is an author and attorney. His book, An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, shows how animal domestication created human supremacy, patriarchy, and racism. With Peter Singer, his books The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter and Animal Factories document in depth how factory farming harms animals, environment, and consumers. He is a contributor to A Cultural History of Animals and The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. His writings have appeared in Audubon, The New York Times, New Scientist, Newsday, Country Journal, OrionNature Quarterly, and other publications.

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Tony Quintana (United States)

Areas of Interest

1. Hip Hop Studies
2. Racial Justice
3. Environmental Justice
4. Youth Rights
Tony Quintana is a loving father, educator, emcee, and activist. He has worked in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention for over 9 years, and has managed health education programs on a wide variety of topics including HIV, diabetes, fitness and nutrition. As an emcee and show promoter, Tony (also known by his stage name I.Q. the Professor) has been very active in the local hip-hop scene in Albuquerque, NM where he co-founded the Conscious Eating and Hip-Hop event series, and is a co-founder of the Dezert Banditz hip-hop crew. He is currently the Plant-Based Eating Program Manager for Animal Protection of New Mexico and Youth Education Director for the Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living.

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David Nibert (United States)
Areas of Interest
1. Oppression
2. Racism and Classism
3. Sociology
4. Activism
David Nibert is a scholar/activist who teaches at Wittenberg University. He has worked as a tenant organizer, as a community activist, and in the prevention of violence against devalued groups. He is the author of Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism and Global Conflict (Columbia University Press), and Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (Rowman/Littlefield). He edited a two-volume work titled Animal Oppression and Capitalism (Praeger Press).

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PUBLICATIONS EDITORS

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Dr. Erik Juergensmeyeri (United States)
Editor, Green Theory and Praxis Journal
Juergensmeyer_E@fortlewis.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Social Movements
2. Rhetoric and Activism
3. Discourse Analysis
4. Peace and Conflict Studie

Erik Juergensmeyer is an Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado where he also coordinates the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. His research interests include community-based action research, argumentation, and conflict transformation, and he is especially interested in ways inquiry can assist community activism. His work has been published in Rhetoric Review, Community Literacy Journal, Peace Studies Journal, and The Public Work of Rhetoric.

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Dr. Scott Hurley (United States)
Co-Editor, Critical Animal Studies and Theory Book Series, Lexington Books
hurlsc01@luther.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. East Asian Studies
2. Animal Ethics
3. Buddhism and Animal Rights
4. East and South Asian Religions

Scott Hurley is Assistant Professor of Religion at Luther College, Asia Representative for the Institute of Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), Academy for Critical Animal Studies Coordinator, and Board member of the Northeast Iowa Humane Society. He teaches courses on religion, ethics, and animal rights and is a scholar of East and South Asian religions whose research interests include the intersection of oppressions, human-nonhuman animal relations, and the application of Buddhist concepts to animal liberation issues.

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ICAS OCEANIA CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Carolyn Drew (Australia)
Program Director, ICAS Oceania
beautiful.wild@internode.on.net

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Radical Adult Education
2. The Kangaroo and Australian Myths
3. Social Justice and Animal Liberation in Australia
4. Animal Liberation and Eco-psychology

Carolyn Drew is an Australian academic and writer. She currently teaches out of University of Canberra and University of Canberra College. Her philosophy on education is inspired by Neil Postman and Paulo Freire. Carolyn’s main aim is to create a learning environment where the student is empowered through nurturing critical thinking skills. Concurrent with this area of interest is her passion for animal rights and activism. Carolyn is particularly interested in the human rupture from the natural world and its underpinning of the exploitation and abuse of animals, including that of humans, throughout history. In 2009 she co-authored ‘The Harvest’ published in the ‘Southerly’, Australia’s preeminent Australian English Association Journal. ‘The Harvest’ is a faction story based on the 2008 slaughter of 512 kangaroos trapped in a disused Naval Transmission Station in Canberra, Australia. Carolyn has a BA in Communication Honours (Canb) and a Masters in Education in Adult education (UTS).

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Lara Drew (Australia)
Project Director, ICAS Oceania
larastardrew@hotmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Radical Education
2. Anarchism
3. Animal Activism
4. Feminism and the Body

Lara is passionate about social justice and is a committed activist on a range of issues. This passion for social justice has seen a broadening of interest in both human and animal rights. Lara is an artist and uses charcoal, pencil and pen for portraiture and political statements often using her art as a form of advocacy. She holds a Bachelor of ‘Community Education’ and Honours in ‘Social and Community Studies’ from the University of Canberra. She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Canberra examining the animal advocacy movement and its intrinsic link to radial forms of education. Generally, the educational methods directly influence the practice of advocacy and learning essentially determining how effective advocates are. Through narrative analysis informed by visual imagery, Lara’s PhD research plans to examine the implications of the ways in which advocates go about educating other advocates for social change. Finally, Lara also illustrated a book “Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story” by Anthony Nocella and Sarat Colling.

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Jessica Ison (Australia)
Representative, ICAS Oceania
jessicaison[@]gmail[dot]com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Queer theory and animal liberation
2. Feminism and ecofeminism
3. Neo-liberalism, “gay rights” and homonormativity
4. Feminist activism

Jessica Ison is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is writing on the intersections of queer theory and animal liberation. She is a tutor at RMIT University in Global, Urban and Social Studies. Jess is the 2014 ICAS Tyke scholar of the year and the chair of the Gender and Sexuality Intersectional Research Collaborative. Currently Jessica is compiling a book of queer critiques of gay marriage in Australia called To The Exclusion of All Others. She lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land, with a bunch of nonhuman and human animals.

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Collin Salter (Australia)

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Whiteness
2. Postcolonial Studies
3. Gender and Masculinity
4.Microsociology (activism as subcultural practice)

Colin Salter, previously an Institute for Critical Animals Studies board member, teaches in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. His research explores approaches to, bases for and process of change in social justice activism—building on more than 15 years of grassroots activism. His publications include the books Whiteness and Social Change: Remnant Colonialisms in Australia and Canada (2103) and Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex (Editor, in press) and the paper Activism as Terrorism: The Green Scare, Radical Environmentalism and Governmentality (2011).

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ICAS AFRICA CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Dr. Les Mitchell (South Africa)
Director, ICAS Africa
mles@ufh.ac.za
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Discourses and Animal Oppression
2. Open Education
3. Critical Realism
4. Moral Disengagement

Dr. Les Mitchell is a Research Fellow of the Hunterstoun Centre of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has worked in the U.K., Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa.  His research interests are critical realism, non-human animals, discourses, power, hierarchy, genocide, moral disengagement, and alternatives to violence.

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Aragorn Eloff
aragorn@bolobolo.co.za
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Deleuze and Guattari studies
2. Anarchism
3. Ethical Philosophy
4. Earth/animal Liberation

Aragorn Eloff is a supporter of animal liberation and a proponent of anarchism and radical environmentalism. He is an independent researcher and activist with a particular interest in the application of poststructuralist, neo-materialist and anarchist ethical philosophy towards analysing and dismantling all forms of oppressive social and ecological relations based on inculturated practices of hierarchy, exploitation and domination.

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Sarah Smith
Haggis@unisa.ac.za
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Property Law
2. Animal Liberation
3. Legal Philosophy
4. Critical Legal Studies and Feminism Art and the Law

Sarah Smith lectures in Legal Philosophy at the University of South Africa. She has published articles in the fields of feminism and animal liberation. Her current research looks into the potential of social networks as a teaching tool for open distance learning.  She sits on various South African animal interest think tanks and organised the conference Animals in Law and Society: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond. She is also a member of the International Fund for Africa a non–profit corporation committed to preventing, alleviating, and abolishing suffering of human and non–human animals.

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Colleen Mollentze
colleen.mollentze@gmail.com
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Psychology
2. Ecology
3. Kyriarchy, Intersectionality and Animal Rights
4. Advocacy and Normalising Animal Liberation/Animal Rights

Colleen Mollentze  is a psychology honours student, long-term vegetarian and vegan.  Believes strongly that animal advocacy and direct action should be supported by a strong theoretical framework.  Particular interest in the problems of anthropocentrism, the intersect between animal rights and human rights, as well as the links between animal cruelty and violence towards humans. Spends many hours both online and in real life promoting veganism and animal rights ideology. Blogger for Penton Independent Pagan Media.

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Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
lccmr1984@gmail.com
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Morality of Political Violence and Terrorism
2. Multiculturalism and the Rights of Minority Cultures
3. Racism in its Relation to Speciesism
4. Ideology and Praxis of Radical Social Movement

Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues holds a PhD from the University of York (UK) and has published in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Political Studies Review, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Green Theory and Praxis Journal and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His research interests are activism, animal rights, multiculturalism, philosophy of race and LGBT.

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Andrea Marais-Potgieter
andrea@plunge.co.za
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Ecofeminist theory
2. Connection to nature and animals (Ecopsychology)
3. Jungian psychology
4. Symbolism and Activism

Andrea Marais-Potgieter has a degree in Journalism and a Masters in Psychology.  She is currently busy with her PhD and aims to contribute to the new and exciting field of EcoPsychology that addresses the pathological relationship humans have with nature and animals.  Andrea has done qualitative research across 15 African countries over the past 6 years and has extensive experience in branding, marketing and strategy.  She is passionate about Jungian analysis, Ecofeminist theory, Symbolism and Activism.

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ICAS NORTH AMERICA CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Dr. Sean Parson (United States)
sean.parson@nau.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Radical Political Theory
2. Cultural Studies
3. Social Movements
4. Environmental Politics

Sean Parson is an assistant professor In the departments of Politics and International Affairs and Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. Is if completing a book manuscript on Anarchist Homeless Activism in San Francisco and is working on a new project on Superheroes narratives in comics and movies and the intersection of cultural studies, environmental political theory, and critical animal studies.

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Ian Purdy (Canada)
ian_purdy@yahoo.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Activism
2. Animal Liberation History
3. Revolutionary Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
4. Social movement theory

Ian Purdy is a grassroots activist based in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Social Justice and Equity Studies (with a CAS focus) from Brock University.  Additionally, Ian holds a BA in English (University of Toronto) and a BSc in Nursing (Ryerson University.) His MA dissertation explored recruitment in the Canadian animal rights movement during the 1970s and 1980s. Ian presented ‘Canada’s Foie Gras Industry’ and ‘The Portrayal of the Animal Liberation Front in Canadian Newspapers in the Early 1990s’ at the 2011 and 2012 ICAS conferences, respectively. By day Ian works as a project manager at an epidemiological health research institute; by night he co-organizes an open lecture series at the University of Toronto called the Animal Rights Academy (http://animalrightsacademy.org/). Day and night he dotes on his family of rescued companion animals.
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Dr. Johnny Lupinacci (United States)
Executive Director of Publications
jlupinacci@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

 1. Environmental Education/EcoJustice/Ecopedagogy
2. Urban Education/Place-based Education
3. Critical Disability/Eco-ability Studies
4.  Anarchist Pedagogies/Cultural Studies

Dr. Lupinacci’s research focuses on how people, specifically educators, learn to both identify and examine destructive habits of modern human culture and how those habits are taught and learning in schools. His work proposes that, through educational activist networks, teachers can be leaders in confronting dominant assumptions about the habits of mind underwriting social injustices and environmental degradation.

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ICAS EUROPE CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Jörg Hartmann (Germany)
jh@jh72.de
ICAS Europe Co-Director

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Anarchist animal liberation (in a total liberation sense)
2. Disability liberation/anti-ableism
3. Liberation of the young/anti-ageism/anti-adultism
4. (Anarchist) radical ecology

 Jörg Hartmann during the last years strengthened his focus on multi-issue, cross-movement approaches to the extent that he initiated and co-organized two yearly total liberation gatherings to succeed former single-issue animal liberation counterparts, a German language area-specific one in 2013 (TBK) and one that included activists from four continents in 2014 (IATLG). He also helped people in Eastern Europe and Asia to organize the first two transnational animal liberation gatherings of that region (EARG in Georgia, Caucasus), helped North Africans to create animal liberation groups and to get in contact with each other, co-initiated a collective that combines anti-ableism and animal liberation (Arbeitskreis käfig- und barrierefrei, similar in focus to the Eco-Ability Collective), helped to create an anarchist network of groups both from the economic North and South, all around the Mediterranean Sea, and to establish anti-speciesism as a fully recognized objective of this network besides, e.g., feminism, anti-war struggles or anti-capitalism, co-created a Mediterranean Total Liberation Network as a branch of that broader anarchist network, co-started a series of multi-issue decarceration events and a campaign that targets the exploitation of both humans and non-humans in circuses and other parts of the entertainment industries (resulting in a broken rib and spontaneous solidarity from emancipatory leftist circles in Potsdam, most visible in form of a large transparent shown at a second division soccer game: https://www.facebook.com/PotsdamVibes/photos/a.187309608099870.1073741828.177803265717171/291608081003355/), co-initiated a project that tries to broaden the perspective of local antiracist and anti-deportation campaigns (that he’s participating in) to include generally domination-critical, multi-issue approaches and generally supports joint efforts of animal liberation and radical ecology activists. Jörg’s most important project is the radically unschooled and generally happy upbringing of his son Noam Zia (born in September 2013).

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 Carlos García (Spain)
ICAS Europe Co-Director
xveganedgex@riseup.net

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Total Liberation
2. Intersectionality of social fights
3. Anarchism and history
4. Kurdistan revolution trough democratic confederalism
Carlos Garcia, is an Animal Liberation activist who is also focused in Total Liberation / intersectionality of social fights. He started to get involved in this being part of political hardcore / punk scene around 25 years ago. He was involved in some antiespeciesist projects in the past. Nowadays he´s in an anarchist and antiespeciesist group wich actually works locally but watching to go further.

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ICAS LATINOAMERICA CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Alexandra Navarro (Argentina)
ICAS Latinoamérica Director
aleximca@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Especismo/Antiespecismo
2. Prácticas Culturales (Cultural Studies)
3. Identidad/es
4. Alimentación

Alexandra Navarro. Director of Latin American Journal of Critical Animal Studies and a PhD in Communication investigates strategies that speciesist trying to sustain hegemonic discourse in Argentina, from the production of meanings linked to dietary habits, steeped in history, cultural identity, representations and imaginary; and how to build your antagonism to antiespecista speech. He co-led Projects University Extension and Volunteerism, where the work was to educate valuation of animal life in contexts of social vulnerability, emphasizing the importance of providing decent treatment, accompanying this work with care and assistance for animals.

Doctora en Comunicación (UNLP-CONICET) con su trabajo de investigación “Representaciones e identidades del discurso especista: el caso de la carne vacuna y sus derivados en la Argentina (2000-2012)”. Profesora y Licenciada en Comunicación Social (UNLP). Actualmente es becaria Posdoctoral de CONICET y Profesora Adjunta Ordinaria en la Cátedra Prácticas de la Enseñanza de la Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social (FPyCS) de la UNLP. Fue Becaria de Investigación en FLACSO, donde trabajó sobre Juventudes, y luego fue Becaria de Investigación de la UNLP con incumbencia en organizaciones con fines sociales. Es representante del IECA (Instituto de Estudios Críticos Animales) en Argentina, y Directora de la Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, la primera en su género editada en español y portugués, considerada una de las revistas más interesantes y productivas del medio académico. Expositora en diversos congresos de la especialidad, tanto nacionales como internacionales, ha publicado capítulos de libros y artículos en diversas revistas, y expuesto trabajos artísticos sobre su labor de investigación a lo largo de los últimos seis años. Fue Co-directora de Proyectos de Extensión y Voluntariado Universitario en la misma línea de trabajo de su Doctorado.

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Gabriela Anahí González (Argentina)
anahigabrielagonzalez@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Especismo/ anti-especismo
2. Posthumanismo
3. Estudios de género
4. Filosofía política contemporánea

Doctoranda en Filosofía por la Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis y la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (co-dirigida por Fabienne Brugère y Marcelo Raffin) con una tesis acerca de la cuestión animal en Jacques Derrida. Licenciada en Filosofía por la UNSJ. Actualmente es Becaria del CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) y profesora adscripta a las cátedras de Filosofía Contemporánea y Filosofía del Política del Profesorado y la Licenciatura en Filosofía de la UNSJ. Ha sido Becaria de Investigación en el CIN (Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional) y Becaria de Iniciación de la Secretaria de Ciencia y Técnica de la UNSJ. Integrante del board de directores del Institute for critical animal studies y Co-Directora de la Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, la primera en su género editada en español y portugués. Ha publicado capítulos de libros y artículos en diversas revistas sobre Ética y Filosofía política contemporánea, especialmente sobre la obra de Derrida, incluyendo la temática del problema de la constitución de la subjetividad en su relación con la cuestión de la animalidad. Ha participado de numerosos encuentros científicos. Algunas de sus publicaciones son: «Una lectura deconstructiva del régimen carnofalogocéntrico: hacia una ética animal de la diferencia», en Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía (En prensa), «Hospitalidad de la animalidad», Revista Paralaje, 2013, «Resistencia animal: ética, perspectivismo y políticas de subversión», Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, 2014, «Comunidad, animalidad y deconstrucción: de la ética a la política animal », en Podestá, B.; Genovese, C. (ed.) Algunas cuestiones de la filosofía política actual, 2015, «La cuestión del sacrificio animal desde un enfoque biopolítico», en Podestá, B.; Genovese, C. (ed.), Tramas actuales de la biopolítica, 2015, «Modos hospitalarios de ser-con los animales en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida» en Cragnolini, M. (comp.) Cuestiones biopolíticas: vida, sobrevida, muerte, 2012, «Deconstrucción y resistencia animal: hacia una perspectiva situada » en La cuestión animal(ista), en Ávila Gaitán I., Ediciones Desde Abajo, Bogotá, 2016.

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Cassiana Lopes Stephan (Brasil)
cassianastephan@yahoo.com.br
AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Etica
2. Política
3. Filosofia Helenística
4. Filosofia Contemporânea

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) em razão da promoção antecipada e direta do Mestrado para o Doutorado concedida pela CAPES, segundo o Decreto 4.631 de 21 de Março de 2003. Seus principais interesses de investigação concernem aos estudos filosófico-sociais relativos às políticas não-identitárias, à ética do cuidado de si, à amizade e ao animalismo como modos de pensamento e atuação que permitem problematizar, mas também afrontar as muitas formas de fascismo, as quais impedem o desenvolvimento da crítica acerca dos valores vigentes na sociedade e na cultura e, sendo assim, sufocam diferentes maneiras de viver ou de se relacionar. Durante a Graduação em Filosofia (DEFI/UFPR) participou do PET-Filosofia (Programa de Educação Tutorial da Filosofia) como bolsista entre 2008 e 2010. As pesquisas desenvolvidas nesse período versaram sobre a (I) articulação entre sabedoria e felicidade no estoicismo e (II) a relação entre homens e animais, de acordo com a teoria estoica da “apropriação” (oikeiôsis). Além disso, foi bolsista da Iniciação Científica (UFPR/TN) entre 2010-2011 com a pesquisa sobre a teoria da apropriação e a formação da comunidade social no estoicismo. Participou do projeto de tradução, coordenado pelo Profº Drº Pedro Ipiranga Júnior, da obra “Nigrinio” de Luciano de Samósata. No ano de 2015 defendeu a Dissertação de Mestrado no tema concernente às convergências e divergências entre as interpretações de Michel Foucault e de Pierre Hadot sobre a ética estoica. Atualmente, sob a orientação do Profº Drº André de Macedo Duarte e coorientação da Profª Drª Inara Zanuzzi, desenvolve a tese intitulada “Estéticas da Amizade: por uma história das relações agonísticas entre a política dos deveres e a ética do cuidado de si”. Ademais, desde 2015 participa do conselho editorial da Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales. Possui experiência nas áreas de Ética, Política, Filosofia Helenística e Filosofia Contemporânea.

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Eduardo Rincón Higuer (Colombia)
eduardorinconhiguera@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Ética y Filosofía de la consideración de los animales no humanos
2. Ecosocialismo
3. Ética y Filosofía Práctica
4. Éticas Ecológicas Latinoamericanas

Eduardo Rincón Higuera, colombiano, es Doctorando en Filosofía de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid con una tesis sobre las discusiones éticas y filosóficas del animalismo contemporáneo en el contexto de la crisis socioecológica. Es Magister en Filosofía de la Universidad del Rosario y Licenciado en Filosofía. Es profesor de Uniminuto – Bogotá y director de la Unidad y de la Especialización en Ética de la misma institución. Coautor del capítulo “Experimentación con Animales” junto con Jorge Riechmann para el libro “Bioética, Derecho y Sociedad” (Editorial Trotta, 2015). Ha prologado y aportado el capítulo “Los animales en el capitalismo. Dos ideas ecosocialistas para pensar el animalismo” al libro de Jorge Riechmann Tratar de comprender. Ensayos escogidos sobre sustentabilidad y ecosocialismo en el Siglo de la Gran Prueba. (Editorial Universidad Distrital – Uniminuto, Bogotá. 2014). Ha sido editor y compilador de los libros Reflexiones sobre la acción. Perspectivas éticas. (Editorial Uniminuto, Bogotá, 2011) y Ética, política y responsabilidad. Reflexiones interdisciplinares. (Editorial Uniminuto, Bogotá, 2012), en los que ha escrito los capítulos “La importancia de que nos preocupen los animales. Reflexiones sobre política animal y agencia política en favor de los animales no humanos” y “Responsabilidad ecológica. Una apuesta desde la socioecoética” respectivamente. Asimismo, es autor del capítulo “La ecoética filosófica y la consideración moral de los animales en la educación ecológica. Una perspectiva” en el libro Filosofías del buen vivir, del malvivir y otros ensayos (Ediciones del Solar, Caracas, 2012). Es investigador de temas animalistas y ecológicos, miembro del grupo de investigación “Pensamiento Ético y Problemas Morales Contemporáneos” de Uniminuto y del grupo de investigación transdisciplinar sobre transiciones socioecológicas (GinTRANS2) de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Además es portavoz para Colombia de la Asociación Animalista LIBERA!

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Iván Darío Ávila Gaitán  (Colombia)
livication@hotmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Posthumanismo y nuevos materialismos
2. Biopolítica
3. Filosofía (trans)feminista
4. Teoría poscolonial

Politólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia con estudios de posgrado en Filosofía y en el campo de los Estudios Culturales (Universidad de los Andes y Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales). Doctorando en Filosofía (Universidad de los Andes). Dentro de sus principales intereses de investigación/acción se encuentran los Estudios Culturales, la Filosofía Política Contemporánea, la Bioética y Biopolítica, la Ecología Política, los Estudios de Género y los Movimientos Sociales. Actualmente hace parte de la Red Biopolítica y del nodo latinoamericano del Institute for critical animal studies. Con el grupo de investigación Relaciones Interétnicas y Minorías Culturales, de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ha adelantado diferentes trabajos de investigación/acción en lo referente a organizaciones político-culturales (ambientalistas, mujeres, animalistas, población LGBTI, indígenas, entre otras). Se ha desempeñado también como docente universitario y columnista. Autor del libro De la isla del doctor Moreau al planeta de los simios: la dicotomía humano/animal como problema político (Ediciones Desde Abajo, 2013) y compilador de La cuestión animal(ista) (Ediciones Desde Abajo, 2016 [en prensa]).

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Fernando Bottom (Brasil)
fernandobotton@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Gender and Especism
2. Micropolítics
3. Histroy and Postestructuralism
4. Postmodern Anarchism

Graduado y maestre en Historia, actualmente realiza el doctorado en la Universidade Federal do Paraná – Brasil por la línea de investigación: Intersubjetividade e pluralidade: reflexão e sentimento na História. Es becario de CAPES y en el año de 2014 hizo intercambio en la Universidad de Buenos Aires para estudiar las cuestiones de género en la política peronista. Actúa como docente en la Faculdade Integrada Espírita y como Tutor en la Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, por la misma institución también coordina tesis de conclusión de curso en el Programa de Posgrado en Historia, Arte y Cultura. Es miembro del consejo editorial de la Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales; También es evaluador ad hoc en las revistas Cadernos de Clio y Atelier de História. Hace parte de los grupos de investigación: Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero (UFPR); História e Linguagens Políticas: razão, sentimentos e sensibilidades – PRONEX (CNPq/Fundação Araucária); História da Assistência à Saúde (FIOCRUZ); Intersubjetividade e pluralidade: reflexão e sentimento na História (UFPR). Es coordinador del Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Género (UFPR). También lanzó un proyecto de coordinación del programa de post grado latu sensu en História de la Arte en la Faculdade Espírita. Es estudioso de temas relacionados con género, masculinidad, patriarcalismo y política en sus conexiones con la Psicología Social. Por sus lecturas acerca de la filosofía posestructuralista de Michel Foucault y Gilles Deleuze se interesa sobre la cuestión animal, especialmente acerca de sus repercusiones éticas, políticas y subjetivas contemporáneas. Se propone realizar reflexiones acerca de las relaciones entre el género y la animalidad, pensando las políticas que entrecruzan categorías como la discriminación especista y sexista en la historia y filosofía contemporánea.

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Ariadna Beiroz (Chile)
ariadnaberoiz@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Derecho Animal
2. Derecho Constitucional
3. Derecho Administrativo-Regulatorio
4. Teoría del Derecho

Egresada de Derecho en la Universidad de Chile (2010-2014) , actualmente en proceso de titulación. Durante el periodo de Septiembre 2014-2015 realizó un intercambio académico en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, España, a través de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile. Desde siempre interesada en el beneficio que el Derecho, que en tanto herramienta académica y social puede colaborar para beneficiar a los animales no humanos, por lo cual actualmente es miembro activo de Derecho y Defensa Animal, primera organización dedicada al estudio y desarrollo de la disciplina del Derecho Animal en Chile.

En relación al ámbito académico, es Ayudante del Departamento de Derecho Público de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile desde el año 2011 hasta la actualidad, colaborando en las cátedras de Ciencias Políticas y Derecho Constitucional (con el Prof. José Ignacio Vásquez, Ministro del Tribunal Constitucional de Chile), y en Derecho Administrativo (con el Prof. Carlos Carmona Santander, Presidente del Tribunal Constitucional de Chile). Además, ayudante en la Cátedra de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos con el Prof. Claudio Nash desde el año 2015; y del Departamento de Clínicas Jurídicas, en la Clínica de Justicia Constitucional, con la Prof. Jesica Torres desde el año 2015. Además, integró el Equipo de Corrección de la Revista Derecho y Humanidades (2012-2014).

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Carlos Andrés Moreno Urán (Colombia)
carlosmorenophi@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST:
1. Animal ethics / Ética animal
2. Animal rights / Derechos de los animales
3. Animal cognition / Cognición animal
4. Web Developer / Desarrollador web
Carlos Andrés Moreno Urán has a MA student in Philosophy at University of Valle, Cali, Colombia. Graduated in Philosohy by University of Valle as well. Currently, he teaches Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge in Deutsche Schule, Cali, Kolumbien. As a Master Degree student, he develops the project “From Theory to Practice; the Question of Animal Rights”. He is member of HERMES, a research group at the University of Valle. Besides, he participates in the Seminar “Animal Ethics” developing teaching activities; the class in focussed on the moral consideration to animals, some animal cognition theories such as Frans de Waal, Bekoff among others, as well as some proposals of ecology and alternative approaches to animal consideration. He is also interested in digital projects and content management platforms such as Joomla and WordPress. He coordinates the Colombian Society of Philosophy website (http://www.socolfil.org). He plans to continue researching about the relationship between humans and animal in a PhD level. Candidato a Mágister en Filosofía de la Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Profesional en Filosofía de la misma universidad. Profesor de Filosofía y Teoría del Conocimiento en Deutsche Schule, Cali. Durante la Maestría desarrolló el proyecto de investigación: “De la teoría a la práctica, la cuestión de los derechos de los animales”. Miembro del Grupo de Investigación HERMES de la Universidad del Valle. Ha participado en varios eventos a nivel nacional e internacional donde ha presentado avances de investigación en el tema de los derechos de los animales. Actualmente co-dirige un Seminario Temático en la Universidad del Valle en el que se trabajan temas de Ética animal, allí se han analizado teorías sobre la consideración moral hacia los animales, teorías sobre cognición animal y algunas propuestas de ecología y enfoques alternativos a la consideración animal. Adicional a lo anterior se interesa en proyectos digitales y de gestión de contenidos. Tiene conocimientos en Joomla y WordPress. Es coordinador de la página web de la Sociedad Colombiana de Filosofía y de las redes sociales que la misma tiene. Espera continuar sus estudios de doctorado en el tema de la relación entre humanos y animales.

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Terry Hurtado (Colombia)
terry.animal@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Animals in warfare and peacebuilding
2. Water and livestock
3. Perception, Imagination of/with animals
4. Indigenous autonomy

Terry Hurtado is an activist and independent researcher based in Cali, Colombia. Holds an MSc in Holistic Science. Currently is board member of the Federación de Liberación Animal, from which he runs the Animal Liberation School and is director of Vida Libre (free life) magazine. He is exploring ways of activism through imagination and embodied experience, as the Imagining Cow Being workshop. Works in the Association of Indigenous Councils of the North Cauca region on ethnomathematics. He is also interested in anarchism, social ecology and deep ecology.

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ICAS ASIA CHAPTER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Bogna Konior (Hong Kong)
ICAS Asia Co-Director
bognakonior@googlemail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

. Continental Philosophy
2. Anthropology of science
3. Media studies
4. Political theory

Bogna M Konior is currently pursuing her PhD on Southeast Asian cinema and post-anthropocentric politics of non-human personhood at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has previously studied critical theory, film, and philosophy in London and Amsterdam. Aside from representing ICAS Asia, she is also the co-organizer of the New Materialism Society, Hong Kong, devoted to the reclaiming of materiality in contemporary critical and philosophical thought and practice, especially in relation to activism, art, and revolution. Over the years, she has worked as a freelance curator and film programmer at OT301 in Amsterdam, and a member of the jury at Five Flavors Film Festival in Warsaw, devoted to promoting independent Asian cinema, as well as easternKicks.com.

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Sara Tsui (Hong Kong)
ICAS Asia Co-Director
sarah.greet@gmail.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Animal Law
2. Legal Education
3. Animal welfare, policies and the Law
4. Tort

Sara Tsui is a lawyer and a law lecturer in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. After she qualified as a practicing solicitor and practiced in the legal field, she turned to academia and is currently completing her doctorate. Her focus in academia and research has been non-human related issues ranging from law, welfare and ethics to the relationship between humans and non-human subjects. Her current doctorate thesis is on the policies and laws on animal related legislations in Hong Kong. Sara also believe in the need of education in non-human related issues and therefore have set up the first Animal Law course at the university where she teaches and the first general courses on animal welfare, ethics and law. She is also the founding member of the first Animal Welfare Research Center in Hong Kong – where the aim is to promote the discussion of non-human welfare, ethics and law at many different levels.

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